Library and Media Center

It’s time once again for the library’s summer coffeehouse series. We’re doing it virtually this year, but still welcome you to join us with your own cup of coffee, tea, or other favorite work-appropriate beverage. If you’re unfamiliar with the coffeehouses, they provide an opportunity socialize just a bit and to learn about resources and services available to help you with work or leisure interests. We start promptly at 10:00. All staff and faculty are welcome to attend. To join, click here.

June 24: Summer Reads; Black Lives Matter
Are you reading works by Black authors? Have you been educating yourself about racism and social justice? Do you want to read more about this but aren’t sure where to start? Join us for a discussion of the books we are reading right now in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Share what you’ve been reading, too, or just listen and learn.

July 8: Let’s Meditate Together!
Meditation has been scientifically proven to shift the sympathetic nervous system response (fight or flight) into the parasympathetic response (calm, rest, digest). Join certified yoga instructor, meditation practitioner, and Mudd Library Administrative Assistant Holly Tuyls for a guided meditation practice. We’ll learn about and practice a basic meditation together. Simple breath-work instruction will also be provided and practiced. If you have any questions or challenges to practicing that you’d like to discuss, we’ll allow time and will provide tips for maintaining a regular practice, too. All experience levels welcome.

July 22: Pollinators
In these days of social distancing, you might find yourself spending more and more time in your garden. Join us in welcoming Assistant Professor of Biology Israel Del Toro as we learn a bit about the native bees in your backyard and what you can do to protect our native pollinators and the little things that often go unnoticed.

August 5: Remote Access, Anyone?
What can you use from the library when you can’t go to the library? How do you get access to resources for yourself, your work, your classes? Join the library staff as we explore ways to get you the things you need.

As we get to the end of the term and the academic year, your friends at the Mudd would like to wish you all the best and to remind you that we are still available to help via email (reference@lawrence.edu) and chat https://www.lawrence.edu/library.

Oh — and when returning library materials to the Mudd, please just put them in the book drop outside the front door of the Mudd Library.  We’ll take it from there.

As always, let us know if you have questions or we can be of help in other ways.

Thank you to everyone who has submitted materials to the Archives to help document the Lawrence community’s response to COVID-19. This is an ongoing project, so keep those submissions coming!

Who can participate? All students, faculty, and staff

Do I have to create the materials myself? No, but the content does need to be Lawrence related

What types of materials can I donate?

• Policies
• Emails
• Social media posts
• Art
• Photos
• Journal entries
• Music
• Anything else you can think of!

It’s National Library Week! Even though your friends from the Mudd Library are not actually in the Mudd Library, we still want to celebrate with you!

• Tuesday, April 21: Library Worker Appreciation Day: Our beloved student library workers are not working in the library this term, but we still want them to know how much we appreciate them!
• Thursday, April 23: Chat with Your Friends from the Mudd! Join us for a Zoom chat! Pop in and say, “hi” to us anytime between 4:30 pm and 5:15 pm (Central time)! We miss seeing students and getting to chat with you! Feel free to use this time to tell us about what you’re doing for fun or to ask us a question!
• All week long: Check out our Facebook and Instagram to see your library friends share why we love the Mudd Library (and all libraries)! We hope you’ll comment and tell us why you love libraries!

Also, don’t forget that while we’re not in the library, we’re still here to help! Ask us!

We are living history and the Lawrence University Archives needs your help!

The Lawrence University Archives is collecting student, faculty, and staff responses to the ever-changing situation presented by COVID-19 (Coronavirus).  

We ask that you share any content you have created or collected as a response to the changes made at Lawrence University, including, but not limited to documents, policies, art, photos, journal-entries, and correspondence.

You may have heard the news that the Center for Academic Success will be moving to the second floor of the Mudd Library. We’re so excited this is happening! Before they can make the move, however, the second floor is going to be renovated!

Here’s a timeline of what’s happening and when:

• Technology Services Helpdesk will be moving to room 401 on March 10th.
• Room 401 will not be available for reservations or Zoom conferencing until Fall term 2020 while that room is our temporary Helpdesk (a Zoom-ready room is still available on the 3rd floor).
• Construction of the second floor will begin on Monday, March 23- the first day of spring break.
• The second floor (including the ITC computer lab) will be unavailable over spring term and most of the summer.
• Construction is scheduled to be completed near the end of August 2020.

Please be sure to let us know if there is any way we can help while the construction is underway. Here are a few helpful tips:

• Get your quiet library time during the later afternoons, evenings, and weekends when the construction crews will not be working.
• Noise-cancelling headphones are available to check out from the circulation desk.
• We’ll be moving study tables from the second floor to other floors so there will still be plenty of places to study.
• Can’t find something? Ask us! We’re happy to help or to retrieve items for you.

We’re so excited to welcome our friends in the Center for Academic Success to the Mudd Library! When the renovation is complete, they’ll be joining our other second floor buddies, Technology Services.

This year the Seeley G. Mudd Library celebrates Lawrence University’s 150th year with the Federal Library Depository Program! Our affiliation with FDLP is by far the longest among all universities and colleges in Wisconsin. Our collections of Congressional records and government documents include historical treasures unique among all FDLP libraries in the state.

Tuesday, November 5 at 3 p.m. outside the Lincoln Reading Room on the first floor of the Mudd Library.

Festivities will include:

• Presentation of an honorary plaque by Anthony Smith, Chief, Projects and Systems of the Government Publications Office in Washington, D.C.
• Opening exhibit featuring beautiful highlights from the collection
• Brief remarks on the significance and scholarly uses of the collections by Beth Harper (Regional Coordinator, FDLP), Arnold Shober (Professor of Government, Lawrence University), and Jill Thomas (Director of Technical Services, Mudd Library)

Cake and coffee will be served!